Gotta comment on this. The New York Times is supposedly this big progressive paper (according to some folks) yet they are steadily moving content away from the public unless you are willing to pay a fee that is not too far offer a normal subscription price.

I signed up for the free NY Times account so I could continue reading Thomas Friedman and the N&R dropped the NY Times columnists and then was hit with this fee requirement to access this important international insight. Not willing to spend my money in that fashion, I haven't been back since and removed their site from my favorites list. We are all poorer for this....